[governance] Annan to establish international forum on internet governance

[Danny Younger]

Vittorio,

Re:  a clear process for ICANN reform

ICANN's At-Large Study is a good example of how ICANN
has dealt with reform initiatives.  It doesn't matter
that the Study Group found a community consensus to
establish a Supporting Organization for the At-Large
-- the ICANN Board rejected that consensus.

Similarly, it didn't matter that there existed a
community consensus in opposition to the VeriSign
settlement -- the ICANN Board rejected that consensus
as well.

At the ICANN Board level consensus no longer matters. 
This attitude renders independent evaluations (such as
the GNSO Review being conducted by the London School
of Economics) as irrelevant.  The ICANN Board will
simply do whatever it wants to do regardless of
informed advice or community consensus.

In this environment, "process" has no meaning.  You
are at the mercy of a rogue board.


--- Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> wrote:

> Il giorno ven, 03/03/2006 alle 09.44 -0500, Veni
> Markovski ha scritto:
> > You mean ICANN should involve the IG caucus? I
> don't quite understan you.
> 
> I mean that if ICANN is to reform itself, it should
> establish a clear
> process and find a way to involve all ICANN
> constituencies (=
> stakeholder groups). Perhaps not the IG caucus, but
> certainly its
> equivalents in the ICANN map, the ALAC and the NCUC.
> 
> BTW - as far as you know, does ICANN have a plan to
> implement the Tunis
> Agenda and reform itself? does the ICANN Board have
> an opinion on how to
> do it? or could you explain your opinion on this, if
> there is not a
> common one among the Board?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a]
> bertola.eu.org]<-----
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